Christian Ferras

Christian Ferras ( born June 17, 1933, Le Touquet, † September 14, 1982 in Paris) was a French violinist.

His father, Robert, was a hotelier and a former violin student of Marcel Chailley, who had been a close friend and admirer of Camille Saint- Saëns. Christian was a very talented student and made phenomenal progress under the watchful eye of his father. 1941, just eight years old, Christian Ferras began studies at the Music Conservatory of Nice in Bistesi Charles, who had been a pupil of Eugène Ysaÿe. The following year, he joined first public, and in 1943 he won the 1st prize of the Conservatory.

After studies at the Paris Conservatoire Ferras won the local prize for violin and chamber music studies began with René Benedetti and Joseph Calvet. At the age of 13 years, the professional debut with the Orchestra under Albert Wolff Pasdeloup with Edouard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole and followed a week later with the Violin Concerto of Ludwig van Beethoven. During this time, Ferras also studied with Paul Paray and George Enescu. Of the latter, he took particular its characteristic way to change the sheets, and the shimmering sound.

1947 followed his first recording for Decca with the concert by Federico Elizalde. In 1948 he won the international Scheveningen competition in which Yehudi Menuhin was one of the judges and attended by Michel Schwalbé took part, the later first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan should be. During this competition Ferras first met Pierre Barbizet, the longtime companion should be at the piano later. In the same year followed by the premiere of Arthur Honegger's Violin Sonata, Ferras at this time was just 15 years old. 1949 Ferras won the second prize at the Long - Thibaud Competition in Paris, a first prize was not awarded.

In November 1951 Ferras ' career took a big step forward when he was invited by Karl Böhm to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic. This was followed by global commitments under other famous conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Charles Munch, Ernest Ansermet, Carl Schuricht, and collaborations with other musicians, such as Pablo Casals, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier, Jean -Pierre Rampal and Wilhelm Kempff.

At the end of the 1960s, Ferras was a widely acclaimed violinist, among other things, he had won nine Grand Prix du Disque. Especially at this time began his problems with depression and alcohol. He became moody and unreliable and began to withdraw from the concert stage. In 1975, he accepted an offer for a professorship at the Paris Conservatoire and entered the next seven years is no longer publicly.

Quite surprisingly returned Ferras on 9 March 1982 in Paris back to the concert stage. Although several concerts followed him and also a corresponding success was attested Ferras was inwardly still very unstable, and only three weeks after his last concert on 25 August 1982 in Vichy Ferras took at the age of 49 years life. He was buried in Cachan south of Paris.

Colleagues such as Zino Francescatti described his way of playing the violin, as " musical perfection ". Herbert von Karajan said of him: " He had an intuitive talent to convey feelings through his playing others." Though mostly active in the Classical and Romantic to Ferras made ​​particular also for modern music and led many works on the first time. These include works by Gyula Bando, Ivan Semenoff, Serge Nigg and Joaquín Rodrigo.

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  • Julian Haylock: A falling star: Christian Ferras reconsidered CD booklet to Christian Ferras - Brahms, Schumann, Franck, Lekeu - Violin Sonatas, Brilliant Classics, 2009
  • Classical violinist
  • University teachers ( CNSMD Paris)
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1933
  • Died in 1982
  • Man

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